Galactic Tech Empire

Chapter 367 pass by
2019年12月10日，下午16：41。

At this moment, the WX asteroid is 147 million kilometers away from the blue star, but its orbit is slowly changing.

Through the monitoring on the three basalt-class spacecraft, the ground control center can clearly observe the off-white surface of the WX asteroid.

A triangular network of carbon nanotubes as thick as a finger is tightly strung on the WX asteroid, just like a fishing trawl.

Although the WX asteroid is still the dominant player in the flight direction, the three Xuanwu-class ships are slowly changing the flight direction of the asteroid by continuously applying lateral force.

After the side force and the asteroid's heading combined force, although the resulting change was very small, the spacecraft still had at least 26 hours to correct its flight direction.

When the accumulation of small amounts becomes large, there will inevitably be a relatively large change in the flight direction of the asteroid.

East Island Keelung, Galaxy Consortium Headquarters, Press Release Hall.

A staff member of the Space Development Committee hurriedly handed a document to Ai Heping, and then whispered a few words in his ear.

The news media below suddenly became nervous, and many viewers who were watching the live broadcast were also worried. They were afraid that it would be bad news.

Ai Heping flipped through the documents and quickly said, "Don't be nervous, everyone, this is good news."

Hearing the good news, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Three Xuanwu-class spacecraft successfully captured the WX asteroid at 15:37 this afternoon at a distance of 159 million kilometers from the blue star. Now they are correcting the flight direction of the WX asteroid. The danger is temporarily lifted."

Immediately, the reporters in the audience quickly raised their hands.

"A reporter from Yangcheng Daily asked questions."

"Thank you, Spokesperson, can correcting the direction ensure that the WX asteroid and the blue star will not collide?" Yangcheng Daily reporter asked nervously.

"Please look at the supercomputing simulation results of the holographic projection." Ai Heping clicked on the holographic projection to display the simulation results on the holographic star map.

I saw a yellow line appearing on the dark blue star map, the solid yellow line is the orbit that the WX asteroid has flown, and the dotted yellow line is the predicted route, and the red dots are constantly flashing at the intersection of the virtual and solid yellow lines. This represents the instant position of the WX asteroid.

The yellow dotted line passes in an area about 1000-2000 kilometers away from the ground of Blue Star.

"Please ask the Mirror reporter to ask questions."

The blond female reporter of the Mirror quickly stood up: "What should I do after the asteroid corrects its orbit?"

"The Space Development Committee is currently discussing, and I can't answer it for the time being." Ai Heping explained.

As the crisis was temporarily lifted and everyone became active, at least the panic and chaos in America and Western Europe was finally suppressed.

However, the damage caused by this chaos is huge, and destruction is far easier than construction. The entire east coast of Mi Lijia is now a mess, full of devastated ruins, and many thugs took the opportunity to smash, loot and burn, or use magic sticks to confuse people.

It is conservatively estimated that the rice grain family alone has caused direct economic losses of 2000 billion U.S. dollars, and the indirect impact is difficult to estimate.

However, the social order in the Eastern world, due to congenital reasons and strong management and control, has not experienced serious problems.

Now the western world is busy putting out fires everywhere, while the eastern world is busy correcting the trajectory of the WX asteroid, the two are like two worlds.

Kaohsiung base, ground control center.

"The orbit of asteroid WX has been slightly deflected."

"The supercomputing center continues to track and calculate."

"Asteroid WX is 139 million kilometers away from Blue Star."

[Dididi!abnormal!abnormal! ] The remote control system was once again beeping loudly.

"What's the matter?" Wang Tu immediately stood up nervously and asked.

"Boss Wang, due to the interaction force of the carbon nanotube network, part of the surface of the WX asteroid has been cut, and a part of the unstable structure on the surface of the WX asteroid is being stripped off." The staff of the remote control department hurriedly replied.

"Calculate the possible consequences of these fragments." Wang Tu ordered with a headache.

"calculating."

"Wang Ju, don't worry too much. The mesh of the carbon nanotube network is 20 centimeters square. Even if it breaks and flies out, it won't be too big." Zeng Baojiang comforted.

Wang Tu thought for a while and ordered: "I know, but this is more or less a problem. Inform other space agencies and let them track these debris as much as possible."

Zeng Baojiang hurriedly went to the holographic conference room to explain the situation with the liaison officers of other aerospace agencies or astronomical agencies.

In the distant outer space, while the WX asteroid was flying rapidly, there were not a few fragments falling off.

These fragments mainly sputtered in the direction of the moon and the blue star, but due to the effects of multiple forces, plus the interference of the moon's gravity and the blue star's gravitational force, their flight direction became difficult to predict.

In addition, most of these fragments are very small, generally the size of a fist, and the largest is only the size of a basketball, which increases the difficulty of monitoring.

The WX asteroid, which was scattered all the way, made the Kaohsiung ground control center in a hurry, and space agencies or astronomical agencies around the world also took action.

These tens of thousands of debris may not be harmful to the ground of Blue Star, but they are definitely a deadly threat to spacecraft in outer space.

时间来到2019年12月11日，上午9：23，此时WX小行星距离蓝星的距离是56万公里左右。

"It is reported that since the WX asteroid has been stripped of about 600 million tons of mass, it is estimated that the cross-orbit distance with the blue star is 2430-2650 kilometers in the low-Earth orbit."

"The report shows that the debris scattered along the WX asteroid is currently about 2200 to 2400 million pieces, of which 30% will enter the lunar orbit, 50% will be scattered on the orbit about 50 to 100 million kilometers away from the blue star, and the remaining 20% ​​will enter the blue star. star in low-Earth orbit."

Wang Tu couldn't help but wryly smiled when he saw the millions of fragments, he turned around and told his assistant:
"Send an urgent notice to the governments of all countries, asking them to prevent meteorites during the period from 2019 to 12:11 Beijing time on December 18, 24."

After being conveyed by the liaison officer in the holographic conference room, the whole world became tense. After all, most of these meteorites are iron-nickel meteorites, and the atmosphere may not completely consume them.

Time flies like a white horse, on December 2019, 12, at 11:19 Beijing time, under the gaze of the whole world.

The WX asteroid passed by the blue star at the perigee of 2674 kilometers in the low-earth orbit of the blue star. Many astronomy enthusiasts took the opportunity to observe the scene of the WX asteroid approaching the blue star.

Under the correction of three basalt-class spacecraft, the WX asteroid passed the blue star's low-earth orbit without any risk, and then it was captured by the blue star's gravity.

At the same time, Qinglong-class No. 2400 and Qinglong-class No. 002, which had been waiting for a long time at 004 kilometers in low-earth orbit, immediately started their main engines and headed towards the WX asteroid.

The two Qinglong-class ships carried 40 tons of fuel this time to supplement the three Xuanwu-class ships.

The WX asteroid will stay in an orbit about 5 kilometers away from the Blue Star under the joint action of the three Xuanwu-class ships and the Blue Star.

But now the whole world is not in the mood to care about the whereabouts of the WX asteroid, because the small gift brought by the WX asteroid, the debris of more than 500 million pieces, has also begun to enter the atmosphere of the blue star on a large scale.

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